Hon. Richard Nyagaka Tongi

All parliamentary appearances

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• 28 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to contribute. I wish I had enough time to contribute to this Bill. view
• 28 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, kindly factor in the minutes you have taken. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 28 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: This Bill has very good and useful components. We will be very unfair to the country and the Government if we threw it away because we are unhappy with one section that we can amend in the fullness of time. The Retirement Benefits Act is a very timely Bill that we need to work on. If you look at developed countries, what is equivalent to the NSSF in their countries has been used to build embassies in foreign countries. The money that we pay in rents is used to pay the workers’ benefits. This is what we need to encourage ... view
• 28 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: The bank interest rates today are hurting more than they are helping. We cannot have it both ways in terms of controlling the upper and lower ceiling. view
• 28 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, if you look at the interest rates, we cannot have it both ways. We are controlling the upper and the lower ceiling. The capping of bank interest rates was to protect the naive and ignorant borrowers, but it is hurting the economy more than it is helping. The numbers of shylocks in the country today are more because we have closed the window for SMEs to borrow money from banks. My proposal on this is that we have to maintain the upper ceiling and remove the lower ceiling, so that banks can have a leeway to ... view
• 28 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: I agree with the Bill on betting because we cannot run a country on gambling. view
• 1 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I rise to support this Motion. Kenya is an agricultural country where investment in agriculture pays well. We are aware that Kenya is committed to farming not because our people are trained well in that industry, but because it is one of the low hanging fruits that we have as a country. Therefore, it is only fair that we make deliberate decisions on how we are going to enhance agricultural farming, modernise it and make it more productive so that our people who are involved in the farming industry would get benefits therein. We are in ... view
• 1 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, can I get some protection? I have a lot of distraction from my neighbour here. view
• 1 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: He was consulting. He needs some microphone. I have told him that we have new technology. He needs to use it. view
• 1 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Hon. Kamanda is my good friend and one of my advisers, a man that I am so very proud of. He is a senior guy that we have around. As I was saying, farming is a key industry in Kenya and all of us have a duty to ensure that we succeed in it. When I was growing up as a young man, I remember our mum would take us to the farm. But, looking back and having benchmarked with the rest of the world how they are doing farming, I have a feeling ... view